ok first of all, happy holidays or christmas to everyone!! happy debian day! but anyway i just wanted to ask something, why does ubuntu use its own version of gnome?? (taskbar in desktop, material colors, etc) i know that even distros like pop os! or fedora use vanilla gnome so why would canonical change the settings of gnome?? i think ubuntus gnome is cute but vanilla is amazing and well at least they give you the freedom of changing desktop environment but still, i dont know why canonical would do that!!
Consistency with their previous default desktop environment, Unity.
is unity still maintained?? can i still use it?? when i was tinkering with ubuntu gnome tweaks there were “humanity” icons and they were the ones from unity
There is a Unity edition of Ubuntu.
Not by Cannonical but there are volunteers that still work on Unity.
There’s two projects aimed at carrying on Unity in the modern era.
Unity7/Unityd essentially continues support for Unity as it was shipped in Ubuntu and focuses more on that desktop experience, and Lomiri continues what would’ve been Unity 8 and focuses more on a consistent UX across mobile and desktop.
Pop doesn’t use stock Gnome, there’s a lot of modifications to it. They’re also working on their own DE for future releases, called Cosmic.
Linux is designed to give you freedom to change things to your liking, and Canonical and many other distro teams obviously feel they can improve Gnome.
